TDAA_Seals_Pickworth_Fig1

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Figure 1 – Gold stamp seal, ridged back, oval, drilled longitudinally. Pickworth 70. Musée du Louvre, AO 11208. (2009 RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Franck Raux / https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010135900) Transliteration: Ḏmrʾl ḏ-ʾbs²b The seal was purchased between Maʾrib and Bayḥān. The oval face is oriented vertically and divided into four registers by lines of small drill holes and there is a border of drilled dots. In the upper register is a seated lion, head reversed. The style is reduced to a minimum, the haunch and eye are drilled, the remainder of the body is crosshatched. There is no tongue or tail. Behind the lion is a vertical crescent moon. In the second and third registers is an inscription oriented from left to right. In the lower register facing in the opposite direction to the lion is an ibex with head reversed. The shape of the animal is composed to fill the lower curved ground line, the composition of the seal design is sophisticated. Second half of the 1st mill. BCE.